Posted on 03/05/2015 4:41:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Photo montage of Rahm at Wicker Park incident: Kenzo Shibata.
- By Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle as posted on the Mental Health Movement’s Facebook page.
Mental Health Movement members Debbie Delgado and Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle just confronted Rahm face-to-face about his mental health clinic closures. Rahm was about to address a small room of developers and residents at the Wicker Park field-house. 3 years after he closed half of Chicago’s public mental health clinics, he may have thought the issue had gone away. But then Debbie, sitting in the front row, a few feet from the mayor, stood up to tell her story. She told of losing her son to gun violence.
She told him how her other son was holding him as he died. She told about how the city’s Northwest Mental Health Clinic in Logan Square saved their lives, helped her and her son deal with the PTSD and depression.
Then she asked why he took that clinic away from her. Why he closed a clinic and now a bar sits in that space. Why he closed five other mental health clinics. Why he thought she would be able to travel an extra hour past three cemeteries to get to the clinic she was supposed to be transferred to without having an anxiety attack on the way. Why he has left her with no options. Why he has left her with her son closed in, barely leaving the house anymore, refusing to see a new therapist since Rahm Emanuel took away their clinic.
After trying to keep his cool, he told us that he would speak to us after the event in a separate room. There, we saw the Real Rahm.
Now off camera, Rahm’s voice raised, his demeanor changed, in no time he was shouting in Matt’s face, nose-to-nose “YOU’RE GONNA RESPECT ME!”
He corrected Rahm’s faulty statistics, saying that no, psychiatric services were not expanded, that in fact the city cut $2.3 million by closing 6 clinics and only redistributed $500,000 of that to private clinics and that those clinics have only seen a couple hundred additional people, whereas 3,000 people are unaccounted for since he announced the closure of those mental health clinics.
The Real Rahm accused Debbie and Matt of “creating a circus in there,” to which we responded that two close friends – Mental Health Movement heros Jeannette Hanson and Helen Morley – had lost their lives because of his decision to close their clinics, that there is nothing humorous to us about what we did in there, that we had tried since months before the clinic closures to meet with him, that Helen (who was looking at Rahm from Debbie’s t-shirt) had shouted to him “If you close my clinic I will die” only to die a month after he ignored those shouts.
When Rahm told Debbie he is going to have the new Commissioner of Public Health personally find her a new mental health clinic to go to, she said “this isn’t about me, this is about all of us, about the movement, about the south and west sides of the city that don’t have mental health now. Don’t try to just fix my situation, re-open all of our clinics.”
He had his PR guy take our number and left, unable to respond. This is the Real Rahm. Calm and collected in public, raging angry and self-defensive behind closed doors.
The only people in the room were two PR staff, two body guards, us and the man that closed half of Chicago’s public mental health clinics – Rahm Emanuel.
Quick. Send that video to Chewy.
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Obviously Rahm and the Obamaloon both need professional help.
I don’t believe this. Republicans are the ones who are out of control and treat the good people like crap. < /S >
sadistic Nazi thug power junkie alert.
That story hasn't been written, yet.
Liberals HATE the weak and the downtrodden.
I would have spit in his face as a token of my respect.
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The ballerina’s tu-tu was tu tight.
> “YOU’RE GONNA RESPECT ME!”
Yeah? Or what?
The story rings true.
He once dumped a dead fish wrapped up in newspaper into the car of a political enemy.
At a dinner party when he was WH Chief of Staff he stabbed a steak knife into the dinner table, screaming the names of people he wanted killed (he later apoligized for the outburst).
What you have in Rahmbo is a very, very angry ballerina.
He once claimed to have lost his middle finger in a tank battle in the Negev, serving with the IDF -the truth was he once had a summer job at Arby’s and cut in off in a meat slicer.
Never let a crass ass go to waste.
Example of his outburst (I substituted first names for the names of actual political enemies):
(glaring around the table, neck veins bulging)
“I want Mike —DEAD..! (slams steak knife into table)
“I want Scott —DEAD..! (slams steak knife into table)
“I want Steve —DEAD..!! (slams steak knife into table)
I guess it’s a variation on a scene from one of the Godfather movies, which Rahm purportedly loves.
Hell hath no fury...
...and Rahm knows circuses.
A significant percentage of leftist politicians are always just a slight nudge away from becoming unhinged: Obama, Pelosi, Turban, Hillary and Slick, Dingy Harry. Far too many to mention.
Rahm’s just on edge because he’s shocked, shocked I tell you, that people are suddenly giving a damn about Hillary’s private email system. And he’s trying to communicate to millions of panicked liberals what they should really be afraid of during this crisis - losing their... “loyalty”... LOL, yeah, that’s what it’s called... “loyalty.”
The guy has always struck me as way too high strung and right on the edge. He needs mental health help.
(I hope he loses)
A Jewish guy vs a guy named Jesus.
America...what a country!
A respectable person never has to demand respect. Does he really think he would get true “respect” that way? Obama, Rahm and their Chicago minions are pathetic creatures.
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